Forthcoming Ancient Philosophy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Roman Literature, Gender and Reception

   Domina Illustris

   Edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara K. Gold, Judith Perkins

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh...

   To Be Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Pliny’s Defense of Empire

   By Thomas R. Laehn

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels...

   To Be Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. Greek Thought and the Origins of the Scientific Spirit

   By Leon Robin

   Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Animal and the Human in Ancient Thought

   By Stephen Newmyer

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern...

   To Be Published June 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

   Edited by Frisbee Sheffield, James Warren

   Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Re-Assessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought

   By Ricardo Crespo

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   In the past few years, the world has seen several financial and economic crises. Psychological, ethical and philosophical levels of causal analysis have been discussed, and in this context, an interest in classical thinkers has emerged. The work of Aristotle has influenced writers from Marx and...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge